The US Air Force is flying combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an effort to tempt Iranian defense forces into turning on their ground radars so that U.S. air crews can map their locations and develop an order of battle for possible future hostilities.
""We have to know which targets to attack and how to attack them," said one (administration official), speaking on condition of anonymity."
Meanwhile on the ground:
To collect badly needed intelligence on the ground about Iran's alleged nuclear program, the United States is depending heavily on Israeli-trained teams of Kurds in northern Iraq and on U.S.-trained teams of former Iranian exiles in the south to gather the intelligence needed for possible strikes against Iran's 13 or more suspected nuclear sites, according to serving and retired U.S. intelligence officials.
The US is also working with MEK, Kurdish group.
The use of the MEK for U.S.-intelligence-gathering missions strikes some former U.S. intelligence officials as bizarre. The State Department's annual publication, "Patterns of Global Terrorism," lists them as a terrorist organization.
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